Seldom Quotes
1113 quotes by 730 authors
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Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
— Harvey Mackay
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones…
— Emily Giffin
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This wild emaciated look appeals to some women, though not to many men, who are seldom seen pinning up a Vogue illustration in a machine…
— Peg Bracken
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But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying attention,…
— Larry Brooks
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Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less…
— Charlton Ogburn
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The heart's seasons seldom coincide with the calendar. Who among us has not been made desolate beyond all words upon some golden day when the…
— Myrtle Reed
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I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we…
— Victoria Moran
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I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with grief and anger,…
— Mason Cooley
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very…
— Horace Walpole
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He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
— David Seabury
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You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.
— Alfre Woodard
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As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You…
— John O'Donohue
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
— Aldrich Ames
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A red apple isn't red, nor the lemon yellow. The sky is seldom blue, only when it isn't.
— Keith Crown
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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
— Bernd Heinrich
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Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a…
— Marianne Fredriksson
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Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.
— Salvador de Madariaga
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When writing is good, everything is symbolic, but symbolic writing is seldom good.
— Wright Morris
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People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.
— Tahereh Mafi
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance,…
— Fanny Burney
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